The board of the Pulitzer Prizes, probably the most prestigious award in journalism, on Monday rejected an attraction by former President Donald J. Trump to rescind a prize given to The New York Occasions and The Washington Publish for protection of Russian interference within the 2016 election and Russian ties to Mr. Trump’s marketing campaign and members of his administration.
The board mentioned in a press release that two impartial evaluations had discovered nothing to discredit the prize entries, for which the 2 information organizations shared the 2018 Pulitzer for nationwide reporting.
The evaluations, a part of the formal course of that the Pulitzers use to look at complaints about successful entries, had been performed after the board heard from Mr. Trump and different complainants.
“Each evaluations had been performed by people with no connection to the establishments whose work was underneath examination, nor any connection to one another,” the board mentioned. “The separate evaluations converged of their conclusions: that no passages or headlines, contentions or assertions in any of the successful submissions had been discredited by info that emerged subsequent to the conferral of the prizes.”
“The 2018 Pulitzer Prizes in nationwide reporting stand,” the assertion concluded.
The successful entries included 20 articles from The Publish and The Occasions on proof of hyperlinks between Russian interference and Mr. Trump’s marketing campaign and administration, and efforts by Mr. Trump to affect investigations into these connections.
Mr. Trump, who has pushed again towards any implication that Russia helped him defeat Hillary Clinton, has repeatedly known as for the prizes to be rescinded. In a letter in October, he mentioned the protection “was based mostly on false reporting of a nonexistent hyperlink between the Kremlin and the Trump marketing campaign.” On Could 27, in a letter to Marjorie Miller, the administrator of the prizes, Mr. Trump threatened to sue for defamation if the awards weren’t rescinded.
The Publish and a spokeswoman for The Occasions declined to remark. A spokesman for Mr. Trump didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.